20/07: Lüderitz & Kolmanskop (Namibia)

Posted by on July 22, 2011

We booked a tour to visit Kolmanskop at 11h. Kolmanskop is only 15km from Lüderitz so we could sleep long and do everything a bit slower. Kolmanskop is an old German ghost town in the desert. It used to be a diamond town, as there used to be plenty of diamonds in the area. When all the diamonds were finished, they just left the town. It’s really nice to see the old buildings from around 1908 taken over by the desert. It’s really an ideal place for photographers.

In the afternoon we visited Lüderitz again and did some groceries shopping. Because we wanted to braai something else besides meat, we decided to go to the local fish shop at the harbour where we bought a nice big 1kg angel fish. In the evening we made a fire between the rocks and braaid our fish. We had to keep the fire going as it was a really cold night.

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